One of them forgot where the toilet was and peed himself, then cried about it.
The Sims 4
The Sims 2?
Not sure if I even played it.
Number three meanwhile was inspirational.
(It was rubbish.)
In 2014 we got the fourth entry.
My life wasn’t in great shape at the time, but neither was the game.
I can’t disentangle the stages of my life from that of The Sims.
The series is all about stages!
Sims grow from babies through childhood and adulthood, before eventually passing away.
The games themselves are similar.
The Sims is, at its core, a virtual dollhouse.
Each Sim has their own personality traits, desires and needs and your job is to keep them happy.
When the original was released, I was captivated.
The Sims is also deeply surreal.
It’s like the mods that turn Skyrim into a hardcore survival simulation, but for doing laundry.
But even without all of that, the world of The Sims is really weird.
When all of these slightly disparate elements stack up, the result is a wonderful toy for telling stories.
you could make facsimiles of yourself and your loved ones and send them on wacky adventures.
Or a devil and an angel forced to live together and take care of an awkward teenage boy?
I’ve done all of these and more.
The Sims launching without swimming pools is like Doom launching without shotguns.
According to Steam, buying all the content for the game will cost you around 840.
The things Maxis have added are, by and large, a lot of fun.
It’s a distinctly uncomfortable experience that leaves me feeling horribly manipulated.
The result is a strangely contradictory experience.
Being pushed so far beyond its natural lifespan is maybe beginning to take its toll, in other words.
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